Stackpole Rocks

62°40′40.8″S 60°57′26.6″W / 62.678000°S 60.957389°W / -62.678000; -60.957389ArchipelagoSouth Shetland IslandsAdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationuninhabited

Stackpole Rocks is a group of rocks, the largest of them linked by a spit to the east extremity of South Beaches in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after Edouard Stackpole, Curator of the Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Connecticut, historian of early American whaling and sealing in the South Shetlands.

Location

The rocks are centred at 62°40′40.8″S 60°57′26.6″W / 62.678000°S 60.957389°W / -62.678000; -60.957389 which is 6.83 km (4.24 mi) east of Nikopol Point, 3.38 km (2.10 mi) southeast of Dometa Point, 1.4 km (0.87 mi) west-southwest of Rish Point and 5.36 km (3.33 mi) west-northwest of Elephant Point (British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2009).

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

External links

• Stackpole Rocks. Composite Antarctic Gazetteer